New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-11
NEARLY RUINED BY FIRE
A CONFEDERATION AT LEBANON, NJ H.
LOSS REACHING TO 250,000-INDUsrkIEs DE-
sTRoYED AND PEOPLE MADE HOMELESS.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt, May 10.-The village Of
Lebanon, place OF 1000 inhabitants, was swept
by confagration at an early hour this morning.
All the manufacturing shops and many dwellings
were burned, leaving some thirty families with
out shelter. The fire discovered In the
shops of Mead, Mason Co, furniture manufacturers,
and the alarm given at a. Calls for help sens
to Hanover about O'Clock. The Hanover fre engine
aud hundred Dartmouth students went down al once
to assist All the manufacturing shops OF the place were
crowded along the banks of tine Mascoma River which
runs through the town. Logs, lumber and other COM
bustible materials piled in among the mills They
caught and burned like tinder. Assistance went
from this place, from Concord and from Enfield.
Eighty buildings, OF which twenty-five were dwelling
Perkins the only injured He badly scorched
but will recover. The Boston and Lowell Railroad
bridge burned and passengers transferred
Two other bridges across the Mascoma wero
burned The entire loss is estimated at
S25OOOO This is one-fourth of the taxable
property of the town Mead, Mason Co met with the
heaviest loss estimated at 100000 the greatest part Of
which stock, as far be ascertained covered
only by $4,000 insurance g. Cole Son. storehouses,
foundry and machine shop loss $4,000; insured for
$3.50. Kendrick Davis key manufacturers, loss S1o
OOO insured W. f. Shaw grist mill. loss $4,000; insur-
900. Shaw wrghts stock, loss $4,000; insur-
ance S35OO A. ~ Rix, machinery manufacturer. losses
stock, $4,000 insurance. $4,000 Freeman & Richard
son. printers, loss, $1,000 insurance, sl5oo d.
Scott, loss on building, $4,000; insurance, $2,97o
Following those whose losses less than 5o00
F. Fahey, two dwellings and Mascoms Hotel Mrs
lynch, two dwellings; f. c. Churchill, dwelling;
B. T.. Tilden, woodworks; fra Bucklin, machinery,
n. B. Marston rake shop; Mrs. Mary G.
shops; G. A. Eliot, shops Peter Jordan. machinery;
Eots carriage-shop; enginehouse; Charles Hubert,
two dwellings Lafayette Hotel; Charles Goss, grocery;
Mary Houghton, livery and barn; ii. G. Billings, marble
works and livery stable; Mrs r. Z. Davis. dwelling;
Charles Pgisers block; u W, BalaTin, gTocesy;
coffin and paper store; J. E. Lincoln dry-goods:
Lemay, two houses and contents; f. II: Cheney
printing office and Messrs. j. f. Dewey, dwelingi c. NJ
Baxter, machine shops; g. s. Rogers woolen mills 4.
D. Marston, mill, and Daniel Driscoll, two houses
Four hundred people are out OF employment Some OK
the shelterless people are staying with rela,
tves and others are being housed ana
fed at the public expense in the City Hall
The village practically destroyed there is absolutely
nothing left OF buildings there will be little TO induce
the corporations to rebuild on the old ground Tue water
power Is good, but the larger mills propelled oy
steam. Household goods of every description fill tho
yards In the vicinity OF the fire. Over ten acres were
swept by the flames and now heaps OF smoudcring
rubbish piles OF burning logs